Other forms: sensations
A sensation is a feeling in the body, or a thing that causes great excitement. A burning sensation, a sensation in the press, an overnight sensation.
Doctors ask about sensation to test nerves, since loss of it maps to the nerve that carries it. The excitement sense gave us sensational, which now means both wonderful and lurid. The Latin sensus means feeling.
Medieval Latin sensatio comes from Latin sensus, feeling or perception, from sentire, to feel. Sense and sentiment are relatives.
Latin
sensus
English, today
sensation
From Old French -, from Medieval Latin - sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA